The site's currently down, confirmed using http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/java4k.com. DNS entries are still active, but it's not responding to pings. That's about the extent of the investigating I can do, maybe appel or another admin can check it out? It was up and running fine when I last visited at 3pm ADT yesterday.

It was misbehaving some time ago, and I almost gave up on it, then it became stable. Now in recent days it's been bad. I've replaced hardware in the server to pinpoint the hardware error. Hopefully this time around it's going to behave. If not I'll fix it by getting another box, because the current one is obviously flawed.

Sorry about it, it's a bit tricky to pinpoint which hardware module is flawed, and I like to play the game of elimination before I spend $$ on new stuff. You have to wait and see.

It was misbehaving some time ago, and I almost gave up on it, then it became stable. Now in recent days it's been bad. I've replaced hardware in the server to pinpoint the hardware error. Hopefully this time around it's going to behave. If not I'll fix it by getting another box, because the current one is obviously flawed.

Sorry about it, it's a bit tricky to pinpoint which hardware module is flawed, and I like to play the game of elimination before I spend $$ on new stuff. You have to wait and see.

No worries, it performed well for the contest period, that's the most important part of the year. I just wanted to make sure someone knew.

PS: Thanks for hosting the site, I just assumed we were using a free webhost somewhere.

I like to play the game of elimination before I spend $$ on new stuff.

Is the site just PHP backed by MySQL or something like that? If so, you could switch to a free host. There are a number of hosts like www.000webhost.com that provide PHP, MySQL and a decent amount of space and bandwidth/data transfer for free. Not that bandwidth is much of a problem I suppose, with the jars being only 4KB!

I'm getting "Incompatible magic value 1008813135 in ..." error on almost every applet. No idea what is causing this.

After some googling it says that the "1008813135 " value translates into "<!DO". Which is strange, because the applets that are being sent from the new host are identical to the ones on the old host, I compared them with the original copies that I have verified and no difference.

Either this is only at my end or something is really fubar with java applets (wouldn't be the first!).

Hmmm, seems like Oracle's stand on Applets has gone from bad to worse. It is slightly off-topic, but depending on how far back they've blocked applets this could single-handedly destroy Java4K. Every time I feel good about Oracle's advancements to the platform, something like this always pops up. (Not that it'll affect a lot of you who disabled it by default anyway ).

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